Otsego Lake (Michigan)

Otsego Lake is located in northwest Michigan at 44°57′20″N 84°41′32″W / 44.95556°N 84.69222°W / 44.95556; -84.69222 (Otsego Lake), south of the city of Gaylord in Otsego County. The lake spans the boundary between Otsego Township to the south and Bagley Township to the north. Otsego Lake State Park is located on the southeast shore of the lake and Otsego County Park is on the northwest shore. The lake has many private cottages and homes with direct access to the lake and parks.

Otsego Lake was the long-time summer residence of Arthur Compton. Compton received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1927 for his work with x-Rays and what later became known as "The Compton Effect". During World War II, he was a key figure in the Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear weapons. In the late 1950's, noted American architect and Frank Lloyd Wright protege, William Adair Bernoudy, designed Compton's retirement home on the lake directly across from Otsego Lake State Park.